Chapter 1- Living Things

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Cell

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Basic unit of structure & function made in living things

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Organism

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A living thing

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Unicellular

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Made of a single cell

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Multicellular

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Consists of many cells

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Development

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The process of change that occurs during an organisms life to produce a more complex organism

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Stimulus

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Amy change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way

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Response

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an action or change I’m behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus

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Metabolism

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Combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down

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Spontaneous generation

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The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources

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Controlled experiment

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An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time

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Asexual reproduction

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A reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent.

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Autotroph

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An organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food.

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Heterotroph

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An organism that cannot make its own food and gets food by consuming other living things.

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Sexual reproduction

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A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism which differs from both parents.

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Homeostasis

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The condition in which an organism’s internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment.

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Classification

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The process of grouping things based on their similarities.

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Taxonomy

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The scientific study of how living things are classified.

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Binomial nomenclature

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The classification system in which each organism is given a unique, two-part scientific name indicating its genus and species.

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Genus

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A classification grouping that consists of a number of similar, closely related species.

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Species

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A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.

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Evolution

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Change over time; the process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.

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Branching tree

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A diagram that shows probable evolutionary relationships among organisms and the order in which specific characteristics may have evolved.

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convergent evolution

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The process by which unrelated organisms evolve similar characteristics.

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Nucleus

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In cells, a large oval organelle that contains the cell’s genetic material in the form of DNA and controls many of the cell’s activities.

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Prokaryote

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A unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus and some other cell structures.

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Eukaryote

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An organism whose cells contain a nucleus.

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Shared derived characteristic

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Trait that similar organisms share indicating common ancestor